Richards, whose ongoing struggles with substance abuse have long been documented by Bravo cameras, said her ex-husband Monty Brinson’s battle with cancer and her co-star Lisa Rinna‘s accusations that she had earlier fallen off the wagon both contributed to her state of mind the night of the incident.

On the night of her arrest, Richards says she opted to pull into the luxe hotel instead of driving home after consuming a glass of wine at her daughter Brooke’s home.

“I felt horribly guilty and thought, ‘I need to go home,'” Richards recalled. “She only lives a block-and-a-half from the hotel, so I left and I realized, ‘Oh, my God. I can’t drink and drive. What have I done?’ So, I pulled into the hotel and when I pulled into the hotel I went in.”

“I said, ‘Please, I’m staying. I don’t want to drive. I’m scared.’ And [a staffer was] like, ‘No, if you don’t leave, we are calling the police.’ And I really thought he was joking. And he called the police,” she added.

Richards was holed up in a restroom before the cops dragged her out. She was charged with trespass, resisting arrest, being drunk in public and battery on a police officer after she kicked a cop upon being taken into custody. Four months later, she was arrested for shoplifting at Target.

The former child star would not address the Target incident. “It’s a legal issue and I can’t discuss that,” she said.